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...some recent Velasquistas have already begun to wonder whether Velasco's third term will fall into the old, familiar, President-dictator-exile pattern. Apparently President Velasco himself has thought about it. "If by any chance I should be deposed again before I finish my third term," he said not long ago, "I am sure the people of Ecuador will elect me a fourth time...
...founded the Maryknoll Seminary for Chinese Boys and played a key part in organizing the first overseas convent for Maryknoll sisters. His diocese would have been the first Maryknoll territory to be turned over to the native clergy. When his death was revealed last week, it followed the pattern of his life; he was Maryknoll's first martyr to the Chinese Reds...
...most successful politician is the man who got himself unanimously elected mayor of Dellwood, Minn., where a total of seven votes was cast." But in another field, the class of '36 has proved more enterprising. Among the books it has written: Search for the Spiny Babbler, A Pattern of Politics, Collective Bargaining and Market Control in the New York Coat and Suit Industry, Alkylaminoalkyl Esters of Aminonaphthoic Acids as Local Anesthetics-and The Wall...
...that of every 40 important happenings, 25 are deaths, eight are marriages, six are divorces, one is a birth. Luckily for my morale, I live in a neighborhood where only occasionally someone dies. We marry happily. Children are born quite frequently . . . I suspect that famous people follow a similar pattern of living...
Having done so, Byrnes promptly cut the rest of the pattern. Every voter, he said, should have the opportunity to vote his convictions. Since the South Carolina Republican Party is weak and tangled in litigation, the thing to do is to get the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket on the ballot by petition, as an independent slate. "Many Democrats," said Byrnes, would sign such a petition. Later, he said he would sign one himself, although he was still not certain how he will vote in November...